purpuric
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin purpura (“purple”), from Ancient Greek πορφύρα (porphúra). The medical sense is from the English purpura (“the appearance of purple discolorations on the skin”). By surface analysis, purpura + -ic.
Adjective[edit]
purpuric (comparative more purpuric, superlative most purpuric)
- (medicine) Pertaining to or affected with purpura (skin discoloration from blood inside it).
- 2003, Christine Léauté-Labrèze and Alain Taïeb, Diagnosis and management of Stevens Johnson syndrome, in Recent Advances in Pediatrics, Volume 20 (edited by Tim J David), Royal Society of Medicine Press, page 140:
- After 1–14 days, skin eruption occurs abruptly, consisting of symmetrical purpuric macules which progress to blisters and areas of epidermal necrosis...
- 2003, Christine Léauté-Labrèze and Alain Taïeb, Diagnosis and management of Stevens Johnson syndrome, in Recent Advances in Pediatrics, Volume 20 (edited by Tim J David), Royal Society of Medicine Press, page 140:
- (medicine, archaic) Purple or purplish (of spots which appear on the skin; regardless of their cause); Synonym of purpureal.
- (chemistry, not comparable) purple in colour; derived from or forming a substance which is purple; especially:
- Derived from or forming purpuric acid.
- a purpuric salt
- Derived from or forming purpuric acid.
Synonyms[edit]
- purpurous (archaic)
- purpural (rare and nonstandard)